An incorrigible Cognitive Dissident

All at Sea

Mutiny on the Britannia

Now that the most anodyne Queen’s Speech in history is behind us, it’s time to take an eclectic look at what lies ahead. I don’t mean individual bits of legislation that will be savaged by the Opposition, but rather the plans of those who care little for Britain’s best interests.

To explain further, I mean the best interests of ordinary UK citizens, not the geopolitical fantasies of the incompetent élite in London and elsewhere. There are several groups who (in the disturbing syntax of 1791 and 1935) represent real, cast-iron Enemies of the People.

The first group to shine the arc-light on is Whitehall – that antediluvian Set where arrogant amateurism mixes with unelected power, misplaced Sovereign ambition and rampant greed to act against the interests of most of us….but especially the ethical, the disadvantaged, the old, and the very young. For the feather-bedded folk in our senior civil service are sure they know better than us what our future should be – even though their past is strewn with examples that suggest the diametric opposite is true.

In summary, Whitehall is anti-Brexit, anti-reform, anti-mutualist, anti-foreign policy independence, anti-devolution and anti-nationalist. It wants to stay with the politically correct multicultural federalism of the EU and the NATO alliance. And it wants to cling on to its control over centralised power, be that centre Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt or Washington. Finally, it most certainly is not interested in lots of radical idealists, ideologues and anti-neolib oiks determined to give more power back to the People….through requests for everything from less surveillance and more localism to proportional representation, and a return to older social, educational and public standards.

When the national Government is weak, the bureaucrat is strong: the beleaguered politician looks to Whitehall for off-piste help in order to survive. And remember: while in theory the security services report to the legislature, in practice they are steeped in the sort of Defence of the Realm mania that demands secrecy, cover-up and the suspension of the Rule of Law as and when such things suit the Whitehall/Downing Street Executive Set.

Then there are the soi-disant Progressives who are always right. Those who – when the People express a view, dissatisfaction or demand for action – invent a hundred rationales as to why such expressions of will are naive, ignorant, bigoted and wrong. So close is their view of life to the autodidacts of the EU, they will do anything to ensure its survival – and turn a blind eye to everything that suggests Brussels has lost the plot on economics, State sovereignty, citizen rights, uncontrolled migration and blatant intolerance.

They are never going to accept the following: the loss of the EU referendum, Brexit as a clean-break, quitting the Special Relationship, Islamic guilt, the obvious flaws in globalism, doubts about global warming causality, and the urgent need to rebalance the UK economy if we are to make export drives more successful.

Significantly, they dominate those mainstream media with influence in Britain.

That second group are suckers for the apologiae of Islam. Their cognitive dissonance in doing so – Love not Hate, Peace not War, Feminism not Femininity – is so obviously denialist, objective observers of it are as one in seeing it as the “changing correctness” of Orwell’s 1984 coming to life. It is akin to the Nazis in 1941 declaring the Japanese to be “honorary Aryans”.

Islam is not the religion of peace, it is the political result of a latter-day decision by Mohammed to adopt violent coercion in place of persuasion when recruiting new converts to Islam. Islam is not a tolerant religion, it is the religion that demands the death penalty for those who change to another form of worship, and those who refuse to convert to Islam. It is not democratic, it is not libertarian and it is anti-matter to the West’s belief (realised or not) in equality. Last but in many ways first, specifically on equality it is misogynist to a barbarian degree, pushing as it does the idea of a woman as half a man, as a gender that must not enjoy sex, and must never stray from the marital bed….yet again, on pain of death.

A common excuse served up by both Muslim ‘leaders’ and liberal sympathisers is the claptrap about Islamics being peacefully unlike Islamists. The split terminology didn’t even exist until after 9/11 – suggestive of tactical spin coming into play. But it isn’t true either way: many peaceful Muslims share the same aims as Jihadists, and indeed fellow-travel with such people – often bankrolling their insane acts of wanton human destruction. The 2013 Pew study “Muslims” found the following among law-abiding Muslims aspiring to migrate into Europe, the US and Australia:

75% of Pakistanis, 43% of Bangladeshis and 41% of Iraqis supporting death as the penalty for leaving Islam

Each of the above in turn (85%, 65%, 69%) say Sharia Law is “the revealed word of God” and supercedes any civil law anywhere

Those seeing ‘Honour killings’ as justified if the offender is a woman represented 55%, 66% and 78% respectively.

And be clear about it: they self-select on seeing themselves as “law-abiding”.

Equally clichéd is the “it’s only a tiny minority” claim. There is no such thing as “tiny” when it comes to Islam: 24% of the world’s population (1.8 billion) are Muslims – and even where the diaspora is only slight (for example, in the US) there are still 180,000 US based Islamics who in research openly support suicide bombing. 31% of UK Muslims aged under 35 told YouGov in 2005 they “approved” of the Tube bombings that had just a few weeks earlier killed 56 people. It took British Muslim Council leader Iqbal Sacranie three weeks to finally (grudgingly) condemn the same act.

Twelve years later, the Home Office itself estimates the number of active Jihadists in the UK to be 25,000. A few weeks back, just three and then two of them were able to bring central London to a standstill.

The snail’s pace at which Britain’s Westminster, liberal and police élites are waking up to the threat has to be seen to be believed at times. The “revenge” attack last weekend was so obviously going to come sooner rather than later, I wonder whether such élites are the equivalent of Bourbon aristocrats lying face down under Madame la Guillotine……still hoping that the blade might get stuck halfway down the shaft.

That’s why I number those élites among, not necessarily our enemies, but certainly as Fifth Columnists or useful idiots. Talk to the minority of Muslims who grasp (and want to reform) the politico-religious aggression of Islam, and they will tell you in no uncertain terms that Western liberals are deluding themselves.

But Britain’s greatest foe is still the divisive fixation with secular ideology – in short, the old, tired and largely irrelevant ‘models’ of socio-economic policy: neoliberal v socialist.

The new socialist Messiah remains Jeremy Corbyn, but his formula isn’t a new one. It plays well among the dispossessed because it consists entirely of more welfare, minimum wage levels, soft Brexit and social justice. The last of those is what all decent people want, but Corbyn is only giving us at most half the picture: we have heard nothing from him about post-Brexit export strategy, the UK’s cost of borrowing under a Labour Government, or how the economy is to be rebalanced.

Labour’s recovery during the General Election consisted of fleet-footed tactics, daily increased promises, and vowing to “stop” everything from blazing tower blocks to Islamic violence. In Theresa May, Mr Corbyn was fortunate in his enemy. In events, he was fortunate enough to play police, health and Brexit cards. But what got forgotten were first, the people around him (often ideologues of doubtful competence) and second, his own baggage.

The media underestimated his shrewdness as a politician. But not all shrewdness in a politician is a good thing.

On the other side of the aisle sit ruthless but now weakened neoliberal zealots….still with over 50 seats more than Labour. They will have banking, globalists, the media and NATO behind them; but they will also be distracted by plots to rid themselves of Big Sister.

Britannia is struggling to make sail with a corrupted administrative class, Islamic Lenins, Progressive Kerenskys and squabbling ideologues on board. This crew of myriad saboteurs, fantasists and cowards could easily exhaust Britannia on their own.

With developing econo-financial storms, a committee of EC pirates and NATO expansionists just below the horizon, the ship is going to be tossed about, fired upon and undermined.

All it would take is one or two Golden Goose bankers in the hold to start playing with gunpowder, and we’ll all be on a one-way descent to Davy Jones’s Locker.

With those exquisitely mixed naval metaphors in mind, sending Theresa May along the one-way plank would be an enjoyable but empty gesture. Britain needs a new ship and a new crew, but lacks the Admiralty systems and will to provide them.

The fifty-year Thatcher Expedition is coming to an end. It’s every man for himself.

[The fifty-year Thatcher Expedition is coming to an end. It’s every man for himself.]

The people who can pay more taxes, don’t want to, so won’t.
People who are paying taxes, no choice, are broke and are unable to pay any more.
The recipients of Politicians generosity [with tax-payers money] are running out of people and companies to get more money from.
Apart from recycling debt [bonds] to control debt/% repayments. No reduction of annual deficits, never mind the National debt. which Just keeps growing due to compound interest.
The UK economy is based on shuffling paper and flipping burgers [sorry the service sector] We make little of real value to pay for our imports [forget consumer durables] think basics what we need to eat and other essentials.

If the Politicians are ever forced to really make serious spending cuts, not cosmetic ones. Will the recipient’s who no longer receive, stay quiet?

It will really be every man/woman for him/her self [PC brainwashed to the end] To live in mainland Europe in a quiet area were essentials are cheap and available might be a good option if still possible.

@Chris B
Italy is a poor example. It is a member of the Eurozone , and thus uses a Foreign currency over which it has no control (EURO).
Mario Draghi being the President of The ECB dictates monetary policy.
All Eurozone nations do not issue their own currency . They are not Sovereign in that respect.

Their budget spending is always revenue constrained. They have to tax and borrow (if running deficits) in order to spend. They have thus been shepeherded in to the private Financial Markets to finance their budget spending. They can only raise extra revenue by privatisation or Issuing bonds at usurious rates.This leaves them open to the Financial predators ,as we have seen in Greece.

They are thus constrained in what they can purchase and cannot ensure all idle labour is being productively used to expand their economies.

Any liabilities they issue are subject to default risk and they can become insolvent (run out of money) under certain conditions.

The bond markets know that these governments are subject to default risk and will price that into yields they expect when buying debt from these governments.

So the great JC (no, not that one) will preach to his disciples at Glastonbury and they will lap it up like cats in a creamery. Build bridges, not walls will be the cry. This from people who have paid good money to be let through a huge wall that surrounds the event.
Why can anyone not just get in there?
Surely most there will believe in an ‘open door’ policy and those paying hundreds of pounds would welcome the poor being let in for free?

@chrisb – As you probably know we haven’t had a surplus on the UK’s Balance of Payments account (visible & invisible) for decades. I had hoped that in exchange for all the plastic trinkets we buy from China & elsewhere the £ notes which are being used in return to buy UK properties and businesses weren’t included in the Balance of Payment figures. So I asked the Treasury and was told they are already in the BofP figures. As you quite rightly surmise we are well and truly on the way to being Fupt!

The gradually dawning awareness of the dangers of Islamism is so little, and so late. The victims of cultural marxism are all around us, thanks to the C-M pricks that still litter the educational professions. My children are still reluctant to take the red pill – but they too are starting to wake up …

I agree that Corbyn would use QE to fund spending. However, it is not consequence free.

“Treasury bonds are classed as gilt-edged and popular with banks, pension funds and Insurance companies.” ‘Popular’ is not necessarily the correct word. Pension funds are FORCED to hold gilts. The effect of QE in suppressing gilt yields has reduced current and future pension incomes. Banks buy gilts because it helps their capital ratios, which are calculated according to government regulations. Essentially governments themselves have decided they are risk-free. To see the error of this assumption, you only need to look to Italy where the already crippled banking sector is stuffed full of government bonds that Italy will never repay in full.

“A Sovereign Nation can never go broke in its own currency, because it issues it.” The problem arises when a country is dependent on foreign capital and foreign investors have lost faith in its currency. The UK continues to run a current account deficit, leaving us dependent on foreign capital, even before a surge in government spending by a Corbyn government. A loss of confidence in the UK would drive the economy into deep recession, however much magic money Corbyn spends. A collapse in sterling would cause inflation to rise. Corbyn would probably react by raising wages causing inflation to spiral towards double figures. The consequent rise in interest rates (you could argue inevitable at some stage) would devastate the economy. Corbyn would be the ideal PM for the EU to destroy a post-BREXIT UK or force us back in on our knees for a bit of Greek.

The most depressing part of the election was how no party discussed improving the UK’s economic performance.

No. apparently it is funded ( according to McDonnell s ex economics guru one Prof. . Richard Murphy of City University at tax.research.com) by remaining in debt , paying for everything by infinitely printing money and taxing the populace only as a means to control inflation. Permanent national debt is good. Surpluses are bad.
The moon is made of red £50 notes ( which incidentally will soon dissappear as folding cash will be
banned!)

Jeremessiah: also diligently worshiped at Glasto; champion of all things fair and just. It’s just that the only fair in life is the bus fare. It appears that Ol’ Blighty will have to sail on that journey to better understand what it all means. There is no stopping a wave this big. Where they go all, we go each–whether we should think it wise, or not.

Welcome back John, loved the Paris piece btw. Fear not, I am on the case of the Progressives who have one hell of a lot of baggage to drop. I bring tidings of great joy David Malone aka GolemXIV blogger is back with an hour and a half inerview and a new post.

I asked an Irish friend, no he was Scottish or possibly Welsh, if he knew – actually he was French with a Russian mother, born in China – the way to a healthy democracy. He reeled off a long list of directions which he qualified by observing that he wouldn’t start from here in the first place.

“It’s interesting that while Muslims enjoy blaming all the westerners for the havoc in the Middle East the minute someone from their religion attacks us they all say that the person doesn’t represent what they believe.”

We marched in in 1991 in their Holy Land sending in short skirted ladies, beer, to liberate a bunch of one camel thieves from another. Until 91 they tolerated a load of shit from us.

Although the labour party still courts and needs the traditional working class vote, it seems to me that in order to obtain power, it is re-alinging itself with the faster growing sections of the population. Hence we now have a situation where the mayors of many principal British Cities are muslim. I spotted this list over on “Not the Telegraph Letters”..

I wonder what the situation will be like over the next five years? (From memory) its only taken one decade for the UK population to increase by 10 million. Before it took 35 years for an increase of 10 million.

@ Iain.
The Bank of England created £435 billion to save the banking system with QE.
The ECB’s Mario Draghi has issued billions of Euros to save the Eurozone Banks with QE.
The US Fed has pumped over a $trillion into the US Banks.
The Magic Money Tree is alive and well, it is planted at the Central Banks.
There is no reason why money cannot be created to invest in the UK economy.
A Sovereign currency issuing Nation can purchase anything within its borders, including the labour of its unemployed.
A Sovereign Nation can never go broke in its own currency, because it issues it.
That is why Treasury bonds are classed as gild edged and popular with banks, pension funds and Insurance companies.

Think you hit so many nails on the head with that article Mr Ward. It does make me smile, that 24% of the worlds population believes in death as the punishment for so many things.

Had to laugh today OT the German government passed legislation to plant trojans to spy on people to remove privacy. Legislation … if you own an android phone go look at all the permissions Google gave themselves for you to use the software. Didn’t need no legislation neither, they gave themselves the right to read,modify and delete whatever they want on your phone rendering legislation worthless.

Islam is more than just a religion though. It’s a complete set of political and societal instructions.

It’s interesting that while Muslims enjoy blaming all the westerners for the havoc in the Middle East the minute someone from their religion attacks us they all say that the person doesn’t represent what they believe.

We have a huge problem with Islam and it is just going to keep getting worse and worse. It needs nipping in the bud though otherwise sooner or later there is going to be one hell of an almighty conflict.

As ever John, agree with much but not all of what you say. Without wishing to single out anything in particular, thank you for the wise words on Islam. We all know lovely Muslims. But when you dig down, they probably aren’t that observant. Many are, which is very worrying when you actually know what ot is all about (unlike the apologists).